Filipinos world’s top viewers of Web videos-media agency

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino Internet users have been tagged as the world’s top viewers of videos streamed over the Internet on sites like YouTube, a global social media tracker said. Global media agency Universal McCann’s Power to the People said its recent survey showed the Philippines having the highest percentage of Internet users that watch videos online, despite the country’s relatively low number of households connected to the…

ASIA: When hospitals become casualties

web BANGKOK, 26 August 2010 (IRIN) – Governments and donors have responded to increasingly frequent and more deadly disasters by boosting funding for response, but investing in preparation, especially in the health sector, is inadequate, say specialists. “Emergency preparedness is an afterthought for many hospitals,” said Jonathan Abrahams, coordinator of the World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Hospitals initiative, which helps countries reinforce medical centres to withstand disasters. The Philippines and Indonesia are two of nine countries working with the Bangkok-based Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) that have emergency preparedness plans in place for their health sectors.

Philippines to hand out excess rice to children

MANILA: The Philippines, the world’s leading importer of rice, said on Wednesday it would hand out 50,000 tonnes of the surplus grain to children. The give-away will free up space in 480 government warehouses where President Benigno Aquino has said unsold rice is rotting, National Food…

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Militants behead two loggers in Basilan

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Islamist militants in Basilan beheaded two loggers they abducted just hours earlier Saturday. Police on Basilan island retrieved the headless corpses of the two victims…

Arroyo hosts last Independence Day reception at Palace

MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday addressed foreign diplomats for the last time, reminding them about the administration’s achievements, including a renewed engagement with the rest of the world. At the Independence Day reception in Malacañang, Arroyo spoke about the country’s heroes from its independence in 1898 onward, as well as the strides that she has made in her nine years in power.

Philippines celebrates 112th Independence Day

Manila: Filipinos around the world celebrated the country’s 112th Independence Day on Saturday as groups geared up for a protest against outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo….

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Food-for-work program set for flood victims

MANILA, Philippines—As the onset of the rainy season nears, typhoon victims will be encouraged to help in rebuilding their devastated communities through the Food-for-Work program implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). In a recent statement, acting…

Tobacco farmers cry for attention, want Cabral out

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Philippines—Much has been written about presumptive president-elect Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III’s smoking habit and the efforts of the Department of Health to squash that cigarette. But now, those who made those cigarettes want a say in the situation. Tobacco farmers from the Ilocos attending a tripartite congress here on Monday issued a petition calling for the removal of Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral and other DOH officials and appealed for a halt to measures aimed, they said, at killing the tobacco industry.

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